The knowledge economy and university workers (AUR 57 02)

By Ian Dobson (NTEU National Office). The modern idea of the intellectual crystallised at the end of the nineteenth century, in dramatic circumstances. Captain Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish background, had been framed by right-wing officers in an espionage case, and condemned by a biased military court to prison on Devil’s Island. When evidence clearing Dreyfus came to light, the army refused to budge. More...